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For anyone who's gotten Tier 3 thru Inquisitor Vrke, you've either come across this mission, or will. Let me explain it without spoilers. You have to first dock with a shuttle. Then you have to send info to HQ at a Waypoint. Here's the reason I'm posting. I tried this mission with 3 wingmates and we lost horribly. The reason: All ships attack the mission taker's craft ONLY. So, when we had 8 ships all attacking us at once, since it doesn't wait for you to kill a wave before spawning the next, they were ALL attacking me. Now, I understand to a certain extent, that because I was uploading the info, they'd be after me. But no one is that stupid. It makes them easier to kill...certainly...they line up all after me. But it also makes it rediculously hard to complete. This part in the mission alone continues on with a total of 8 y-wings, 8 x-wings, 8 z95's, 4 a-wings, 4 b-wings. Once you've survived that (which is the easy part), you then have to survive another round of that WHILE TRYING TO DOCK. Yes, they don't stop spawning this time. They spawn forever...so realistic. The rebel navy would be dry in a few hours...all ships in the area dead. Oh that was worth that little bit of info.

Ok, I managed to complete this mission (well my friend did), but it took8 ties and we BARELY scrapped by. Now, if this is a precedent for what's to come (I wasn't in beta, no clue), I'm worried. I don't mind grabbing a few people for missions, but this reminds me of EverQuest so much. It takes so many people going through a 45min to an hour long mission to get one person one skill box. I am going to try again tomorrow to do it (I blew up again), but I have to protest my extreme disliking of how this plays out. Why do they all target one ship? That's the worst AI ever. Usually, you have some target the primary target, and the others engage his/her escorts. This mission CANNOT be done solo...I don't care how hard you try. 4 ships per wave of tier 3 ships makes it far too difficult to kill them before the next wave arrives. Plus, anytime the stupid Y-wings and B-wings arrive, they slaughter you with missiles Don't the rebels haveanything better to do then die by the truck load? 8 people barely did it...

I know this is primarily whine, but my concern revolves less around the particular mission (though I loathe it so), and more to the style of missions and how difficult it is to get skill boxes through these rediculously hard quests. I'm maxed on xp and just waiting to finish this quest (though it won't even use my xp, cuz it's all quest based thereafter I believe), meanwhile, all my friends are tired from the long haul and failing so far in when a lucky missile smashed my engines. I've been having amazing fun duoing and trioing the whole way. I stopped soloing early on when I realized it was getting tougher, and love grouping much more, but I didn't like the sudden, drastic raising of difficulty level. It was hard on the low levels to do the duty kill quests by yourself, but great with 2 people. This is similar, but so much harder, it's not even funny.

I hope a Dev fixes the bad, ultra shortsighted AI, because this mission is nearly unplayable in its current form. We asked ourselves so many times if it was really the quest...because it's rediculous.